about the stuff that's going on in the world as opposed to just regular crying we're going to find out what the corporate mainstream media is not telling you about how we're going to filter it through some satirical comedic lenses to make it more digestible that's what we do every week hard hitting radical comedy news like . the one the only one i moved back home twenty five years ago to raise my family back in westchester and i when i look back i know that i made the right decision with the first black woman to be miss america hundred eighty three. being first close the downside is you get the brunt of the anger me being miss america overnights you know i had death threats being sent to my my. it made me the fighter the survivor that i am i live actually in the same hometown

that i grew up. in the next town over is not what. i did there i seen the start of the deli a little french restaurant they just marched in our memorial day parade and people have told me something people don't know about you. all next on larry king. our guest today on larry king now is a true woman award winning actress grammy and tony nominated singer acclaimed dancer and new york times best selling author is with meso williams the nestle stars of the new vs one series daytime diva is about behind the scenes drama of a daytime talk show daytime divas airs mondays attend nine central on v h one that has been a hit from the get go was this. inspired by my friend star jones absolutely

a star that had heart surgery and her doctors said you can lose some brain cells i want you to exercise your brain every day so she said her writing and then she wrote what she knew which was a behind the scenes of a fictitious talk show called the lunch hour and it got picked up but by it was a bestseller got picked up by the age when they held onto it for about five years and she called me last february in my house as i'm cooking food said listen i got ten episodes guarantee you are my first person that i had in my mind when i wrote this part please look at it read the book here's the pilot telling us to think so you're barbara walters i am. her name is maxine robinson and she was named after max robbins and used to be at a.b.c. news he was the first black anchor yes so that was her kind of a boss to him so he she always saw her as a woman of color and she denied that it's about the view as she does but. she writes what she knows she and almost everything in the book is either based on

a case that she tried an interview that she was a part of or something that happened to someone or this group right away. i thought it was pretty on the now so i mean knowing the view now in the talk and all these chat shows you can pretty much see the archetypes so i kind of knew who she was i could see myself who she was fusing together but i knew it was a matter of casting and direction and you know it was good writing to you guessed it all know she owes i just literally just came here from the talk i just co-hosts that audio. and i've done the view several times so i know the operation and how it works which is great because i go in there knowing what it's like to be a guest but also nine want to like to see the produces you know run a show i've sat in the chair in the makeup chair with barbara walters on my my right enjoy her on my left i know you're going i'm all yeah exactly we have a clip from daytime diva. what the hell is mode imo and why am i hearing for the

first time on a air. and ramona make it your business to see that no one messes with the setting i can try to get for over two thousand episodes of drunk coffee tea and sometimes baka out of line to please i'll try but i'm. you know ever since this coma incident things have been slipping around here it's not just the settings of my chair or the mug by the way my pajama jeans are gone to want your pajamas. security but relax these really are just a little thing oh i've been in this business long that up to that seemingly little things turn into big things. is it to do some real host of you came on the show yes the we do a little kind of remote where we have the panel come on and one of the episodes you've also been played kind of villainous character. like that well it was fun aren't they they're more fun but i guess it's typecasting i started out my first

broadway show was kiss of a spider woman why playing a very powerful intoxicating sean to so the one nine hundred forty s. and then the lips i was a very villainous kiss of death which is the spider woman so i think that was back in one thousand nine hundred four and then i've you know done the christmas diva and a lot of diva larger than life very rapid fire strong women i guess when people know that you can deliver that they have in mind when you personally been called on people who make. what is a diva well but what i think of is like beverly sills or price some diva on a stage singing at a magnificent aria that was soo pervan makes everyone leap to their feet and that's why bravo diva that's my coming from an artist and there was a. exactly exactly i thought it's got a connotation also of being. ten. trips to exactly being kind of bratty and i draw. yes exactly which is not me. i wish sometimes when

i do have an entourage because that's how it should be living but i'm pretty low maintenance rules of the regular girl right and i think so sorry about my parents for enough force me to but that was you know both my parents are teachers we had chores i was never called little princess you know as i mean my brother were raised in a very suburban normal childhood. and now in westchester i where i live actually in the same hometown that i grew up in chappaqua is where i live the next next hanover is melwood and that's where trouble olive's next door to me which is going to ensure i do i do of there i seem of the starbucks s.c.m. of the deli the little french restaurant they just march in our memorial day parade and people on the show premier june fifth got off to a great start is this another ugly betty. if we get the fans that the die hard fans of ugly betty i would love it this is the first time

i've done a series for cable so i know numbers are different but it's also a different style and like my kids never watch regular live t.v. anymore no everything's on a device so they they and they binge watch too so this measure of success is completely different from my seven years at a.b.c. when i did for betty and then two years of desperate housewives and six and six park avenue this is a different kind of dynamic it was sr who acts on actors what are you from essence what am i what are you. i think i'm a. musical theater is my true love sell when i get on stage and get a chance to do it all together in front of a live audience that's that's my base when you've had such a diversion career new done roll with with two or three you happily married or children i do i do i like to start directing. i think i've been behind the camera

for a while and i would love to and i'm actually watching my daughter who is she was going to film school she's a senior this year and high school and that's kind of her goal and watching her and her brain soak it all in and you know i saw a very young age from her so i would love to live in debbie allen is really the first female director that i got a chance to work on every day at a stand out of the savoy was a c.b.s. movie about the one nine hundred thirty s. savoy in harlem and we jetted by then it was it was acting but it was also dancing and so alive and she would every day would make us start doing jumping jacks or just start of the day with energy to make sure that everybody is ready for their game and she was always one of my favorites get better with age jobs get better well now i think it's fantastic there's so many opportunities for women who are fifty plus and i think that's also because of that new the new model for television it's not just network it's you know these ten episodes of of hulu and netflix and

home through all the yeah what were you best known for do you think. it depends on my stan base which is really interesting i can go anywhere in the world and i'm surprised i just went to cuba and people recognized me and i said from what the city that that by like lamido twangy i am which was a ballroom dance movie that i did in ninety eight with cheyenne who's a big latin star so and then somebody somebody said the odyssey i got the honesty and i did that with armando santelli for n.b.c. as a kind of a t.v. movie and they play it as part of the history classes and some of these schools sell some kids now buy from the odyssey there's a lot of spotlight on racism in hollywood sexism you have any thoughts on it is it was better well i i tend to think that it's better because there are more opportunities as more voices there's more avenues for people to to have their

voices heard. you were the first black woman to be miss america nine hundred eighty three was there downside to being first. oh of course the downside is you get the brunt of all the anger and all the i mean you know i wrote a book with my mom because i needed not only to tell my story but my mother to tell how she was protecting me at twenty years old i was a junior at syracuse and i won i had no aspirations of our being a beauty queen but me being miss america overnights you know i had death threats being sent to my my course house here because of my color and then you lost your crown ten months later yeah we all went to hell took pictures of you well this is before yeah the year before i had taken some pictures from a photographer that i worked in the studio and of course there is now there's no release and nobody has was either it yeah yeah yeah so that was my move i dumb ass

move in a weird way it made you it maybe the person i am absolutely the rage or because i'm a jew you were a zillion absolutely and you became doubly famous i think sense of my similar forgotten who knows america three years ago from what statement i don't know. where if you're down right good but yeah it may be the fighter in the survivor that i am the jew plan a career of to or did you say but i gotta go so yeah and nothing stopped me from hearing the nose and the curiosity all those meetings which i knew that there was it was just curiosity needing to to get me in the room i went through years of that and it was recording that really allowed me to control my image my music and said this is my song this is my voice and i can control it as opposed to waiting for a role what was your break move for vanessa williams that part of an absolute became yes well i think it's a the best for last was such a huge huge hit it was six six weeks on a number

a number one of the charts and that was you know and i've had hits before but it's solidified me as not being a one hit wonders my second album and i had a number of hits. and i think on broadway kiss the spider woman is really where i was taken seriously there's no tricks you know we don't broadway it's your voice there's no there's no tricks and shit and your mail is. howard mcgill unplayed. who was the and and and and brian stokes mitchell was. the revolutionary yeah and it was great of mazing amazing that oh yeah and he's continued he did dracula did i think the big reality i think is there. is to give had this master plan you know where you're going. did you have a career inspiration someone you looked up to many i probably the first time that i was wept or was brought to tears as meeting lena horne because i had i mean not

only a beauty and a talent but her strength and her struggle and not having to big able to go in the front door and having to come through the kitchen and those those are the stories that i look and say that they paved the road for me to be able to come into the front door and have the all those opportunities and freedoms be given to me as as an actress and as a woman of color frank sinatra took lena horne to the store club once and they were a little embarrassed to say didn't serve black. so the maitre d. said to sinatra. mr sinatra we don't seem to have made a reservation sinatra said lincoln. next we're talking secret talent celebrity crushes and best advice with vanessa williams plus a politics to be right back. all

the world and all the news companies merely players but what kind of part is already america playing party america offers more artsy american cars. many ways a new landscape just like the real news big good actors. you could never you're on. so much parking all the world all the world's a stage we are like. this is how it works not the economy is built around washington. washington. the media the media over voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals power boom bust it's not business as usual it's business like it's never

been done before. i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta emails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided. to support his claims. i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing. for the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied that the n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo for government claims that. you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable.

she stars as. the daytime divas talk show the drama based on the book airs mondays attend nine central on the h one. we can't go through a day without talking about him what do you think of our president that him. you know. just recently with the the the violence against

a of a republican base ball team that was about to play the democrats tomorrow for charity it's amazing how polarized the country is and how angry it is it's maddening it's maddening. i was disappointed with him on l g b t because originally he said he wouldn't bother me at all goes to war but right right right right and disappointed i think he. i don't now i mean i have i am very pro l.g. bt and. and it's kind of scary because. there's not a lot of things that are said that have much merit or have any longevity in terms of what's true and what's not what's what has merit and what doesn't when it comes out of his mouth and it's frustrating i tremble when i turn on the news

because i like now it's going to happen. because it seems like every day i've never watched cable news more than i ever have in my life because you know i'm a little trepidation because you never know what's going to happen and i over better than that i hope you know of course to call my own moment but i hope we can just govern and move ahead him and stop the violence for sure vanessa we play a little game of if you only knew ok it was a secret tone to it. a secret talent. it certainly is not accounting probably the last thing that i love to do you don't have to have a childhood celebrity crush michael jackson for sure first grade a.b.c. album made a card little heart out of his over his picture yes my current celebrity crush who i am loving the i'm watching genius on that geo about albert einstein's

life the one who plays the on line stein is phenomenal yes we'll do pleasure. massage guilty. would you trade places with for a day. maybe oprah. strangers' job you've ever had let's see i did i was a one of those annoying telephone survey people that calls your house and reads from the paper about a service i work for and now a new york state political action committee does above a candidate. exactly in the high school summer job was the best piece of advice you ever got. no matter what happens in your life never changes who you are just now that and remember that was the worst piece of advice. don't go to church trust. us for tarter for exactly. as you will be anonymous for

a day what would you do. if i could be anonymous for the day i would probably if i was invisible go high school with my daughter and see what her day is really like favorite vice. cocktails cocktails i try them all what people get wrong about you probably that i am like high maintenance and don't do my own stuff and i i cook i claimed i drive my kids to school. there larry and i really think you're a d.v.s. yes biggest perk of being a celebrity. i would probably have to say reservations for sure. something is there something you long to believe to be true but realize wasn't. it's that disappointment when you meet people that are your that are going to yeah you look up to and then you see them treat people poorly that kills me and. told me

something people don't know about you so they can see you cooking and driving down there are now now why probably i used to smoke pot in high school. been there about an. hour james fraiser social media wants to know when you're a shoot to is happening. that was with arnold schwarzenegger i doubt if we had arnold and james caan and. i don't know where it would happen when i was a racist and i was saved so i don't know that i have to be somebody else not including me. credible i'd love to hear how you'd prepared for and what your thoughts are on dance with me again this was their ballroom dance show and we did this movie when ballroom dancing with stars was not on so it was wonderful to learn a completely different language of dance i've grown up dancing modern and ballet

but to learn the. cha cha and the possibility and the quickstep were unbelievable and to be able to teach them and then pretend that i was in an a ballroom competition and you know be good enough to have people believe in me that was really great so fierce seven through three one six three two three would you like to do a desperate housewives revival reunion oh sure if they asked me if i had a great time i did seasons seven and eight and i loved all the girls we all got along and i played a role name renee perry who is a an ex-wife of a baseball player and she had a lot of sass a lot of humor and i loved it. steph lying pos he wants to know what elmo was like in person. i did a movie called. him with medical taken and of course al though and. lives in a box and when you open the boxes got covers on top of his eyes and i remember my

daughter was about four years old when i did a concert with them and they flipped open the box and she is disturbed seriously many a son and yes kevin yes. always worked haven't i have i've been lucky and it's it's great being versatile which is how i have maintained longevity morillo maria i pure i mean new projects in the bed. while hoping for season two of daytime divas and i continue to do concerts and i'm about to do the hollywood bowl next month we're doing sondheim on sondheim which i did on broadway in two thousand and ten and we're doing an evening with due to mellow with the orchestra but i think that's july twenty third two things and in the qualms no barbara cook did that barbara's not me doing this so i don't know whose to answer in the class you still issue we're going on an album or broadway music i got to get to it that's it's been there i will do it it's on my list of things to do and finding time to get back in

the studio but i don't get the songs in the shows and most of the songs are stings that i sang when i was a musical theater major or did things a summer theater so these are songs that have some personal all familiar yeah never will i marry. a john. you know songs that kind of made my career when nobody knew me you were nominated for nine grammys you never won. do you go to i don't want anything do you go to them. not unless i have. something that's been asked but i haven't been in a while we are back on broadway i would love to there's a couple of things that i'm looking at so i have to figure out when i'm doing the t.v. show or whether i have enough time to actually do a broadway run so you happily married got four kids grown one graduating high school you've got a hit show on v h one. where would you say you are in the life of the national

williams i'm pretty happy i'm i'm happy i'm sad old you know i moved back home twenty five years ago to raise my family back in westchester and i when i look back i know that i made the right decision because there. or they went to the same high school that i did they've got the a some mill year community that supports them as much as i work i know that the that the community has their back don't should travel to do things they do i do but when i'm home i'm home and people now that i look at my calendar and i say that this is a reunion can't do that i've got to sing a church here can't do that and they work around what's important to me your husband was a teacher no he's a finance business man but he's actually working at a private school now in terms of finance and operations bring his his business knowledge to private school has ever done that before near home yes but twenty minutes away and he didn't want to be in the city so this is perfect for

a very dull must stick by you i do i am i go i have my dogs i love to walk. i love my i love mine asked what happened to those. well i know it's i still wear the push up bra and try to try to work out hard enough to maintain a fifty four. year deal i put nicely thank you a great knowing you thank you so much great seeing thank you. she's a very special guest daytime divas airs mondays at ten pm nine center on v h one of those always you define me on twitter at kings things that i'll see and i just thought.

it was. here's what people have been saying about rejected in neighbor to us exactly just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch you know a lot of the really packs a punch to sleep yampa is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than flu vaccines better see some people you never heard of love redacted tonight not president of the world bank so hates it but he doesn't really mean it seriously he sent us an email to.

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